Villa-Lobos, Forest of the Amazon (1959).
This may have been the last thing he wrote, and I believe this is the only stereo recording of him conducting.
This version runs 47 minutes. I prefer this recording, and this edit, to the 75-minute version which was recorded posthumously.
Here is the full album:
I am starting a thread devoted to the great Heino, to avoid any further hijacking of the Japanese Jazz thread.
This is arguably the greatest album cover ever:
It is one of the greatest album covers ever, and as a would-be Heino completist, it truly bugs me that I have never found a copy.
This is another of my favorites:
This incredible video was posted in the Sabu thread.
The arrangement is fantastic. Does anyone know if there was a commercial release of this arrangement, either by Jose Curbelo or any other Latin/Afro-Cuban bands from this period?
Villa-Lobos
Nonetto and Quatuor, two chamber works, on a Capitol LP conducted by Roger Wagner.
There are fantastic, and they don't seem to have been recorded very often, if at all, since this 1950s LP.
Those of you into the Mastersounds should be hep to an album called Perfect Percussion by Roy Harte and Milt Holland (Pacific Jazz 1405).
The album was later reissued as Percussion Unabridged on Kimberly 2022.
For this album, Pacific Jazz created a first-rate jazz exotica album by overdubbing percussion on some existing Mastersounds tracks. Wes Montgomery completists will note that Wes plays on only one track, "Not Since Ninevah."
Like nearly all threads that I begin, this one died a quick death.
But I am reviving it in the hopes that some of you with adventurous taste in music might do a few needle drops on this one.
The entire album is on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/378oUOU5vIZvn8VTj2IyHL
The album inhabits a space between tightly arranged postwar chamber jazz and futuristic Jetsons cocktail soundscapes.
It was self-imposed. I had some job stress and serious time constraints, so I kicked myself off of the InterWebz for a few months to focus. But now I'm back and better than ever! If you liked the old TTK, just wait until you see what TTK 2.0 has in store for you!